Monthly Archives: July 2010

Heave you ever heard of Clark Howard? Mr. Howard is a nationally syndicated radio show host talking about consumer finances and protection. His show is full of advice on how to save money, invest money get out of debt and find great deals. I love it.

But once in awhile, he gets on a topic and stays there. Time after time he comes back and just continues to hammer it.

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The advocates of the Diversity policy in Wake County have lost an advocate.

Since I became interested in the debate, I have sided with the folks who were in favor of using socio-economic diversity when planning assignments in WCPSS. I am pretty much in favor of using any tool in a tool box to fix a problem. And I think the data supports the fact that when a school is becomes “too poor” it tips.

Consider a business owner with 3-4-5 stores. Every year, she evaluates her business in an effort to determine which store is doing well and which is under performing. I can see her ranking her stores, best to worst.

Now imagine if she were to take that list, identify the worst performing store and reward its manager with a raise.